To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

Man alone knows that he must die; but that very knowledge raises him, in a sense, above mortality, by making him a sharer in the vision of eternal truth. He becomes the spectator of his own tragedy; he sympathizes so much with the fury of the storm that he has no ears left for the shipwrecked sailor, though the sailor were his own soul. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.